[burnsinternet]

But IDN.asia is better than cn or jp because it covers all of asia! Everyone knows Asia is monolithic.

And everyone over there has mobile phones, so .mobi is going to be bigger than any ccTLD, right fellas?

Just kidding....

I am afraid that newbies will go after those extensions and be wildly underwhelmed at the ROI. Do you really think it will help the IDN market? I guess IDNs will appear more mainstream with those extensions.

However, these ascii newbies will probably go after phishing domains and TMs first because they don't know the languages. They now have no Overture or bids tools to guide them. They won't take time to learn the language(s). They will be easy targets of dishonest flippers.

Trust me, ascii newbies can't even seem to understand that Google is not the Alpha and Omega. Yandex? Baidu? Rambler? Yahoo? Others? They see those as simple knockoffs of Google.

Not sure how this will play out.